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LEO FORD 
The appeal of blonds. Flaxen hair, the color of wheat. Usually with blue eyes. Blonde bombshells. Dumb blondes. Ditzy blondes. Marilyn Monroe! Blond beach beefcake. Vikings. Nordic supermen. Tab Hunter! But they are also portrayed quite often in the movies especially as villains. I am thinking of that bunny boiler Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction, and more recently, TwoFace in The Dark Knight. So many stereotypes about blonds and blondes. What's the fascination? Some people really glorify that hair color, even while making fun of those who are born with it and making them evil. Perhaps some envy going on there? You know, I love and hate you because I'll never be naturally blond like you. The gay blond pornstar kind of fits more in with the clean cut blond beefcake image that harks back to the muscle beach culture of the 1950s and 60s. Later, the muscles became less prominent and the skinnier youngman became the ideal. The first gay porn studies like Falcon picked up on both images, and as the seventies progressed, the hair grew longer and the image became less clean cut. Think of the white trash blond Robert Prion type, still the boy next door, but a real sex pig. One blond porn star, who, as his obituary in Manshots claims, exemplified the more clean cut blond image that resurfaced in the “GQ-yuppie” eighties, was Leo Hilgeford, who shortened his name to Leo Ford when he began to make adult films. .jpg)
Leo was pretty much a phenomenon, cranking out one legendary porn classic after another. 
His career began when he and this then-lover, Jamie Wingo, appeared in J. Brian's classic 1981 Flashbacks. He also appeared in Blonds Do It Best, Sailor in the Wild, and Games. In Games, Leo Ford portrays a swimmer participating in the first San Francisco Gay Games. His sex scenes are phenomenal, totally unforced and natural, and he even gets one with the legendary Al Parker, who plays a photographer. 
Leo also inherited some slides from J. Brian. When he died, he was planning to make them into a video. Bijouworld now owns these slides, and we have scanned them into our digital archives. 
Leo died of head injuries sustained in a traffic accident in 1991. He and his lover, Craig Markle, were riding on their motorcycle when another vehicle sideswiped them. Check out our website for Games and Flashbacks, as well as some other titles that show those sometimes sexily evil blonds do it best and have more fun. |
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